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21st annual Supper for Six food drive nears in Greenfield
02-04-2025 3:13 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The Supper for Six food drive is once again collecting donations to ensure local food pantries and family programs will have plenty to offer during the busy February school vacation week.

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Teen steals vehicle in NH, damages Kringle Candle property in Bernardston
12-09-2024 4:50 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

BERNARDSTON — A New Hampshire teen was taken into custody on Monday morning after allegedly taking a parent’s vehicle from Hinsdale, attempting to hit police officers as she made her way through Vermont and causing property damage at Kringle Candle...


Valley Bounty: Benefit cuts threaten farmer’s livelihood in New Salem
11-11-2024 9:00 AM

By JACOB NELSON

Jared Duval built his farm around Massachusetts’ innovative Healthy Incentives Program (HIP). Since 2017, HIP has helped tens of thousands of lower-income households buy fresh produce grown by local farmers. By most accounts, it’s been a wild success,...


PHOTO: Connecting with careers
11-07-2024 1:58 PM


My Turn: Stop the cuts to HIP and keep our communities fed
11-06-2024 10:24 PM

By CLAIRE MORENON

 This winter, thousands of low-income Massachusetts families will have less food on their tables — unless we take action now. The state needs to allocate an additional $10 million to HIP, the Healthy Incentives Program, to stave off program cuts that...


UMass basketball: Rahsool Diggins pours in career-high 26 points, newcomers also shine as Minutemen rout UNH in season opener 103-74
11-04-2024 10:24 PM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — It can be a difficult task for college basketball fans to learn the players on the teams they root for year in and year out. Every season, programs across the country are gutted and rebuilt.UMass men’s hoops fans got quite the introduction...


Search for missing NH woman takes police to Warwick
10-29-2024 4:53 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

WARWICK — A police investigation that closed Hastings Heights Road overnight from approximately 7 p.m. last Tuesday to noon Wednesday involved a search for a missing woman from Keene, New Hampshire. Keene Police Det. Joel Chidester said in an...


Former employee sues career center, Greenfield, Northampton
10-11-2024 7:47 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

WORCESTER — The MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center’s executive director is being sued by a former co-worker alleging she has lost out on consulting contracts because of damaging information spread by her ex-colleague.Maura Geary is the first...


My Turn: One year after Oct. 7, the Jewish fight for safety and unity
10-07-2024 6:01 AM

By MOLLY PARR

This Monday, Oct. 7, marks one year since an attack that forever altered Jewish history. One year since 1,185 innocent people were brutally murdered by the terrorist group Hamas. One year since 251 hostages were kidnapped and brought into Gaza. The...


Local colleges see effect of Supreme Court ruling
09-09-2024 9:35 AM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A steep drop in the number of Black students in the Class of 2028 at Amherst College compared to the preceding year’s incoming class, and less racial diversity in the first-year class, is likely a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against...


$165K to provide workforce training for 18 former inmates in Franklin, Hampshire counties
08-21-2024 4:28 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE and DOMENIC POLI

With a $165,000 grant, 18 formerly incarcerated individuals in Franklin and Hampshire counties can participate in a training program with their respective sheriffs’ offices and Community Action Pioneer Valley to prepare them to re-enter the...


My Turn: Farms face challenges, but region resilient
08-19-2024 9:03 PM

By PHILIP KORMAN

 As I am poised to leave my job after 16 years as executive director of CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture), naturally, I’ve started to reflect. My takeaways so far are: Local farms are still challenged to keep farming, maybe even more...


MassHire, Riverside Industries partner on job fair to connect Haitian refugees with employment
08-15-2024 3:56 PM

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

EASTHAMPTON — When Marie Andrades lived in Haiti, she worked as a nurse. Now, sheltering with her mother and baby in Northampton, she is looking to find employment where she can make use of her transferable skills.“I [studied] nursing in Haiti. I have...


PHOTOS: Abundant backpacks
08-13-2024 12:49 PM


Guest columnist Rob Okun: How ‘white dudes’ may reshape manhood this election
08-01-2024 8:54 PM

By ROB OKUN

 White men are coming out, but not in the way you might think.Before more than 190,000 men joined a “White Dudes for Harris” call on July 29, the common wisdom parroted by the news media is that most white men support extreme right causes and...


Two decades of Blooming Backpacks: United Way affinity group holding annual drive
07-31-2024 12:00 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — The 20th annual Blooming Backpacks drive has begun and will continue to collect new backpacks filled with school supplies through Aug. 8.The event, organized by Women’s Way, an affinity group of the local United Way of the Franklin &...


The long view: Reflecting on 30 years in local journalism
06-28-2024 3:25 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

In the early 1990s, I answered an ad for a reporting job at the Gazette. I had editorial experience — I’d worked as a copywriter, a copy editor, and a proofreader — and I liked writing, but I’d never worked for a newspaper, unless you counted a few...


Stepping onto summer stage: Silverthorne Theater Company debuting three plays in its first full summer season
05-31-2024 2:09 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

Time was when summer theater in the Valley was typically produced by a number of mainstays, including Chester Theatre Company, New Century Theatre, and the Ko Festival at Amherst College.But New Century Theatre shut down a few years ago, as did the Ko...


Class B baseball: Will Hogan’s walk-off HR lifts Hampshire past Frontier in quarters (PHOTOS)
05-20-2024 8:52 PM

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — Hampshire senior Will Hogan put several good swings on the ball throughout Monday’s Western Mass. Class B quarterfinal against No. 5 Frontier, but each one he pulled foul.But in his last at-bat, he stepped to the dish with two outs and...


Softball: Greenfield rallies with big inning for 5-4 win over Hampshire (PHOTOS)
04-29-2024 7:56 PM

By GARRETT COTE

WESTHAMPTON — With a Hampshire Regional runner standing on second base and two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, eighth grader Kalin Dubay stepped to the plate – the Raiders trailing by one run.Dubay worked the count and fouled off several...


Guest columnists Ellen Attaliades and Lynn Ireland: Housing crisis is fueling the human services crisis
04-24-2024 4:43 PM

By ELLEN ATTALIADES and LYNN IRELAND

 Vacancies at programs operated by human services providers — despite some progress over the last two years — are still much too high. More than one in four direct support professional positions in adult residential and day programs for people with...

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